Jewelry



(No Model.)

JEWELRY.

No. 444,673. Patented Jan. 13, 1891.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LUDWIG .I. ROEHR, OF NEIVARK, NEW JERSEY.

JEWELRY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 444,673, dated January 13, 1891.

Application filed March 28, 1890- Serial No. 345,659- (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LUDWIG J. ROEHR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bracelet-Locks; and I do hereby declare the followingto be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a novel, convenient, and ornamental lock for bracelets, necklaces, and other similar articles, having a locket or other ornament combined therewith; and the invention consists in the improved lock and ornament combined and in the arrangement and combinations of the several parts thereof, as hereinafter set forth, and finally pointed out in the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents in elevation myimproved lock and ornament combined in engagement with the ends of a chain, bracelet, or necklace; and Fig.2 represents a similar view showing the lock combined with a different form of ornament.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each figure where they occur.

In said drawings, a indicates the lock-bow, b the locket or other ornament, and c a bracelet or necklace.

As already stated, the lock is combined with and forms a part of the locket or other ornament and combines therein a hollow or tubular split ring or how a, carrying a coiled spring a, (shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1,) one end of which abuts against a suitable seat formed in said bow and the other against one end of a lockiug-bolt a which works in said hollow bow or ring and carries a knobor finger-piece c, which projects through a slot formed in the Wall of said bow and works back and forth in said slot as the bolt is drawn back by the finger in unlocking and forced out by the spring in looking, thereby closing the ring, as will be readily understood upon reference to the drawings. The outer end of said locking-bolt, when the device is locked and. the ring closed, engages with a seat (1, which should be slightly recessed to receive the end of said bolt, in order to hold said parts more firmly in engagement.

I do not limit myself to the form or character of the ornament combined with and forming part of the look, as it is obvious that said ornaments may be varied almost indefinitely; nor do I limit the device to bracelets and necklaces, as it is adapted to other purposes, as will be manifest.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

A look for bracelets and the like, comprising a locket or other ornament, a hollow split ring secured thereto and carrying a spring, and a locking-bolt working in said hollow split ring and engaging in a holding relation with a suitable seat, thereby closing the ring, said split ring being adapted to engage the opposite ends of a bracelet or necklace, as shown and described, for the purposes set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 17th day of March, 1890.

LUDWIG J. ROEHR. Witnesses:

OLIVER DRAKE, OSCAR A. MICHEL. 

